- Born
- January 28, 1884
- Died
- March 24, 1962 (aged 78)
- Known as
- physicist, explorer, balloonist, Privatdozent, university teacher, inventor
Auguste Antoine Piccard was a Swiss physicist, inventor and explorer known for his record-breaking hydrogen balloon flights, with which he studied the Earth's upper atmosphere and became the first person to enter the stratosphere. Piccard was also known for his invention of the first bathyscaphe, FNRS-2, with which he made a number of unmanned dives in 1948 to explore the ocean's depths.
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